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Nicole Brossard: Essays on Her Works (Writers, No. 18) (Writers series) (Writers series)

Nicole Brossard Essays on Her Works Edited by Louise H. Forsyth Sensual and compelling, the simple words of Nicole Brossard’s writings slip in unexpected ways into readers’ minds, all the better to transform their sense of self and reality. Creating tropes out of women's unspoken experiences, advanced science, literary and philosophical traditions, and the devastation of politics everywhere, she has been revolutionising concepts of human knowledge and being, challenging the assumed entitlement of those who abuse power for more than three decades. This collection offers unpublished poems by Brossard, extensive fragments of a conversation with her, and essays that critically appreciate many of her more than twenty collections of poetry, nine novels, and countless works of theory and commentary. Essays by Louise H. Forsyth, Karen S. McPherson, Alice A. Parker, Louise Dupré, Claudine Potvin, Katharine Conley, Catherine Campbell, Susan Knutson, Susan Holbrook, Barbara Godard, Lynette Hunter.

Writers In Transition (Essay Series 6)

Contrasts: Comparative Essays on Italian-Canadian Writing (Picas Series)

The Exile and the Sacred Travellers

In this collection of nine short stories and the powerful novella 'The Sacred Travellers', Marie-Claire Blais offers an exploration of the major themes of her work: the pain of desire, the fragility and vulnerability of the human spirit, the quest for purity and generosity, and the pitiless search for truth. The characters in this new collection are all exiles, all fighting to inhabit new beings. Yet the exile explored by Marie-Claire Blais is far more than a matter of circumstance; it is the metaphysical exile of humans wandering the face of the earth, looking for a place, a self, to call their own. Many of Blais' characters have passed through the 1960s, and are now refracting life in ways unexpected and unrecognisable, as increasing awareness compensates for diminishing powers. Neither nostalgic nor bitter, these travellers see their victories and defeats as something far more personal and intimate than they would have thought possible in the '60s of their youth, a youth that stands as a parallel to the paradise, real or imagined, that has been lost. Marie-Claire Blais' hauntingly beautiful French has been translated by Nigel Spencer into English that is at once straightforward, supple and lucid.

Vaisseau d'or et croix du chemin: 1895-1935 (Anthologie de la litterature quebecoise)

The Oxford Anthology of Canadian Literature

Impala (Prose Series 49)

a novel of Montreal in the 60s, tr Daniel Sloate

Eyeing the North Star: Perspectives of African-Canadian literature (Ambassador's lecture series)

La Patrie litteraire: 1760-1895 (Anthologie de la litterature quebecoise)

Driving Home: A Dialogue Between Writers and Readers